About Us

FORTUNE is a global media organization dedicated to helping its readers, viewers, and attendees succeed big in business through unrivaled access and best-in-class storytelling.

Our Manifesto

Fortune drives the conversation about business. With a global perspective, the guiding wisdom of history, and an unflinching eye to the future, we report and reveal the stories that matter today—and that will matter even more tomorrow. With the trusted power to convene and challenge those who are shaping industry, commerce and society around the world, Fortune lights the path for global leaders—and gives them the tools to make business better.

Our History

Henry Robinson Luce founded Fortune magazine in 1929 in the wake of the Great Depression and the death of Yale classmate Briton Hadden, with whom he cofounded Time magazine and the Time-Fortune Corporation (later Time Incorporated) in 1922. In a 1929 prospectus for advertisers, Luce wrote that Fortune should be “the Ideal Super-Class Magazine” for “wealthy and influential people.” It should be, he added, “surpassingly beautiful” and “so richly illustrated and so distinguished in appearance that it will be instinctive to turn the pages. And having turned the pages, his reader will discover the editorial content of such arresting vitality that, were it but mimeographed on cheapest newsprint, he would still pay dearly for it.” Its price? $10 per year, “a barrier so high that only the reader both enthusiastic and well-to-do will vault it.”

The first issue of Fortune, featuring on its cover the Roman goddess Fortuna with her wheel, was distributed to subscribers beginning in February 1930. (The magazine was not initially available on newsstands.) As with Time, Luce made himself editor of Fortune; its first managing editor was Parker Lloyd-Smith and its first art editor was Thomas Maitland Cleland. Fortune’s first headquarters were located in the Chrysler Building at 135 East 42nd Street in New York City; it later moved to the Time-Life Building at 1271 Avenue of the Americas and Brookfield Place at 225 Liberty Street and is currently headquartered at 40 Fulton Street.

The pages of Fortune have been filled with the work of some of the world’s greatest writers, editors, illustrators, and photographers. Among them: Ansel Adams, James Agee, Constantin Alajálov, John Atherton, Herbert Bayer, Lester Beal, Thomas Benrimo, Joseph Binder, Margaret Bourke-White, A.M. Cassandre, Thomas Maitland Cleland, Miguel Covarrubias, Walker Evans, John Kenneth Galbraith, George Gusti, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Kazin, Fernand Léger, Leo Lionni, Fred Ludekens, Dwight Macdonald, Archibald MacLeish, Erik Nitsche, Miné Okubo, Antonio Petruccelli, Diego Rivera, Ben Shahn, and Charles Sheeler.

Today, Fortune is one of the world’s leading business media brands and comprises a multinational monthly magazine, daily website, and conference series. It is owned by Fortune Media Group Holdings Limited, which is wholly owned by Chatchaval Jiaravanon, and published by the Meredith Corporation. It occupies offices in Beijing, Boston, Chicago, HK, London, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Shanghai.

Our Founding Mission

An outline of Fortune’s mission can be found in a sidebar calling for subscriptions in Volume 1, Issue 1 of the magazine:

“FORTUNE’S purpose is to reflect Industrial Life in ink and paper and word and picture as the finest skyscraper reflects it in stone and steel and architecture. Business takes FORTUNE to the tip of the wing of the airplane and through the depths of the ocean along be-barnacled cables. It forces FORTUNE to peer into dazzling furnaces and into the faces of bankers. FORTUNE must follow the chemist to the brink of worlds newer than Columbus found and it must jog with freight cars across Nevada’s desert. FORTUNE is involved in the fashions of flappers and in glass made from sand. It is packed in millions of cans and saluted by Boards of Directors on the pinnacles of skyscrapers. Mountains diminish, rivers change their course and thirty million people assemble nightly at the cinema. Into all these matters FORTUNE will inquire with unbridled curiosity. And, above all, FORTUNE will make its discoveries clear, coherent, vivid, so that the reading of it may be one of the keenest pleasures in the life of every subscriber.”

Our Editorial Standards

Fortune is committed to producing journalism that meets the highest standards of accuracy, fairness, transparency, and lawfulness. Our print, digital, and live products aim to inform, delight, illuminate, and help our readers, viewers, and attendees. We believe that our products must reflect our commitment to quality and integrity and we recognize that our reputation depends on upholding these journalistic values.

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Who We Are

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FOUNDER Henry R. Luce, 1898-1967

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Alan Murray
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Lisa Cline
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER AND PUBLISHER Michael Schneider
CHIEF STRATEGY AND FINANCIAL OFFICER Anastasia Nyrkovskaya
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER Jonathan Rivers
CHIEF CUSTOMER OFFICER Selma Stern
CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER Mike Kiley

BOARD SECRETARY Julia Chu

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER Alyson Shontell

MANAGING EDITOR Holly Epstein Ojalvo
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, FEATURES Matthew Heimer
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, NEWS Nick Lichtenberg
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, EDITORIAL GROWTH Ashley Lutz
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, ASIA Clay Chandler
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, CONNECT Peter Vanham
EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR Peter Herbert
CREATIVE DIRECTOR Josue Evilla
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Mia J. Diehl
INVESTING AND FINANCE EDITOR Lee Clifford
LEADERSHIP EDITOR Ruth Umoh
CRYPTO EDITOR Jeff John Roberts
TECH EDITOR Alexei Oreskovic
WELL EDITOR Jennifer Fields
SENIOR EDITOR-AT-LARGE Geoff Colvin
CORRESPONDENT Shawn Tully
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Lydia Belanger
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION GRAPHICS Nicolas Rapp
HEAD OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Maia Samuel
PROJECT MANAGER, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS Tari Ayala-Keating
DIRECTOR OF VIDEO Megan J. Arnold

SENIOR EDITORS Verne Kopytoff, Steve Mollman, Indrani Sen, Claire Zillman
NEWS EDITOR, U.S. Irina Ivanova
NEWS EDITOR, EUROPE Massimo Marioni
SENIOR WRITERS Alicia Adamczyk, Maria Aspan, Sheryl Estrada, Erika Fry, Emma Hinchliffe, Jeremy Kahn, Jessica Mathews, David Meyer, Phil Wahba, Trey Williams
EDITORS Mohamed El Aassar, Justin Doom, Azure Gilman, Nicholas Gordon, Hillary Hoffower, Rachel King,
NEWSLETTER PRODUCTION EDITOR Jack Long
PRODUCTION EDITOR, EUROPE Aslesha Mehta
SENIOR EDITOR, DISTRIBUTION AND SOCIAL VIDEO Rachel Ventresca
SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL VIDEO Payton Kirol, Cheyann Harris, Mahnoor Khan
SENIOR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Vivienne Walt
WRITERS Luisa Beltran, Chloe Berger, Alena Botros, Paolo Confino, Will Daniel, Christiaan Hetzner, Ryan Hogg, Sydney Lake, Lionel Lim, Lila MacLellan, Paige McGlauflin, Alexa Mikhail, Erin Prater, Eleanor Pringle, Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Prarthana Prakash, Kylie Robison, Orianna Rosa Royle, Leo Schwartz, Alexandra Sternlicht, Chloe Taylor, Jane Thier
DATA JOURNALIST Meghan Malas
LIST TEAM Rhona Altschuler, Kathleen Smyth,
SUPERVISING PRODUCER, FEATURE VIDEO Chris Joslin
SENIOR PRODUCER Theodore Tae
PODCAST PRODUCER Alexis Haut
LEAD SERIES PRODUCER, YOUTUBE Jon Fazio
PHOTO/ART Alexandra Scimecca, Michele Taylor, Christine Bower-Wright
COPYROOM Maria Carmicino, Lauren Goldstein, Katherine Raymond

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH Scott DeCarlo

GM, E-COMMERCE Jason Steele
CONTENT DIRECTOR, E-COMMERCE Benjamin Curry
SENIOR EDITOR, E-COMMERCE Jasmine Suarez
WRITERS, E-COMMERCE Preston Fore, Trina Paul
CONTENT PRODUCER, E-COMMERCE Nicola Lucaine

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS Sharon Lawrence, Carmen Melendez, Nadine Quinlan, Hildegarde P. Vilmenay, Amy Wu

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SVP, SALES Lindsey Kintner
SVP, INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING, ASIA Khoon-Fong Ang
VP, LIVE MEDIA SPONSORSHIP Monica Sembler
VP, PARTNERSHIP MARKETING Sheyna Bruckner

SVP, GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS Patrick Reilly

SALES, NEW YORK Sarah Williams, Tim Mullaly, Sean Brown, Marcelo Suhl
SALES, CHICAGO Austin Kopplin, John Winterhalder, Breanna Felice, Elizabeth English, Charlotte McCarthy
SALES, CALIFORNIA Julia Keefe, Megan Bauer, Dannygail Dean
SALES, BOSTON Melissa More
SALES, EUROPE Rupert Turnbull, Simon Low
CONFERENCE SALES Elizabeth Parks, Michael Orme

SVP, BRAND STUDIO David Lennon
VP, BRAND STUDIO Megan Gilbert
BRAND STUDIO Lauren Chomiuk, Erica Euse, Shilpi Kuchal, Kelly Smith, Alannah Fay, Pia de Soiza
DESIGNERS Kim Coyle, Greg Leeds, Alberto Gonzalez, Ana Suarez-Fennell, Andrew Mixter, Fernando Mancuello, Stephanie Silvera

VP, LIVE MEDIA Delwyn Gray
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR AND EDITOR AT LARGE, LIVE MEDIA Michal Lev-Ram
DEPUTY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, LIVE MEDIA Ellie Austin

VP, MEMBER SERVICES Elizabeth Tighe
VP, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Owen O’Brien
VP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Ron Moss
MANAGING DIRECTOR, EUROPE Jim Jacovides
DIRECTOR, CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE John Seiler
DIRECTOR, BRAND MARKETING Karelle Gordon
GM, CONNECT Alison Fried

VP, ENGINEERING Rajeev Maskey
VP, PRODUCT Maren Pyenson
SENIOR DIRECTOR, ADVERTISING TECH Terry Guyton-Bradley
DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Nicholas Bailey

SENIOR DIRECTOR, FINANCE Michael Heller
DIRECTOR, FINANCE (ASIA) Alan Wong
HUMAN RESOURCES Wendy Alper, Maggie Chan
HUMAN RESOURCES (ASIA) Doris Lee, Angel Ip
LEGAL Steve Weissman, Stacey Keller, Laura Ferguson-Bowman

Our Live Programming Teams

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Program Director: Marlene Saritzky
Co-chairs: Rana El-Kaliouby, Jeremy Kahn, Verne Kopytoff